(post
 :title "8sync 0.3 released"
 :date (make-date* 2016 12 19 17 00)
 :tags '("release")
 :slug "8sync-0-3-released"

 (p [Greetings, all!
     I'm pleased to announce
     ,(anchor [8sync 0.3]
              "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/8sync/8sync-0.3.0.tar.gz")!
     8sync is a library for
     ,(anchor [GNU Guile] "http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/")
     which provides an asynchronous event loop and which uses the
     actor model as its primary concurrency synchronization mechanism.])

 (p [This release brings some major changes and improvements.
     The
     ,(anchor [8sync 0.2]
              "https://www.gnu.org/software/8sync/news/8sync-02-released-and-the-future-of-8sync.html")
     release announcement (less than two weeks ago!) anticipated some of
     these changes.
     In summary:])

 (ul (li [8sync is now Guile 2.2 only, in order to support...])
     (li [Suspendable ports!
          Writing networked code is considerably simpler in 8sync 0.3.
          Using Guile 2.2's
          ,(anchor [suspendable ports]
                   "https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/Non_002dBlocking-I_002fO.html")
          tooling, when reading and writing from ports that are set to
          be nonblocking, 8sync's scheduler will automatically
          suspend to the scheduler and resume your code when network
          data is ready to be handled.])
     (li [Actors now have an "actions" slot which is automatically
          inheritable.])
     (li ["define-mhandler" is deprecated.
          Instead, message handlers are simple procedures, and a
          message's body can be any sort of Guile procedure argument
          list.]))

 (p [And more!
     See the
     ,(anchor [NEWS file]
              "http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/8sync.git/tree/NEWS?h=v0.3.0&id=29745029f85cbc462bcfa0c75f92156ea2c6b494")
     for full details.])

 (p [What's next?
     If all goes well, 8sync 0.4 should be around the corner soon as well.
     You can expect the actor system to be moved to take center stage
     in the application and (finally!) some decent documentation.])

 (p [Happy hacking!]))
